The auction closed Thursday, more than a month after it started. The bidding stopped precisely on the reserve price the FCC set and Dish promised to meet, winning all 176 licenses.

Dish last year promised to bid at least $1.56 billion in the H Block auction and in return, it petitioned the FCC for waiver of certain technical rules governing its AWS-4 spectrum, as well as additional time in deploying a network on that spectrum.

Dish requested up to 30 months to designate its AWS spectrum for uplink or downlink.

While Dish further enriched its spectrum portfolio, the FCC applauded the incoming funds for FirstNet.

“With this successful auction, the Commission makes good on its commitment to unleash more spectrum for consumers and businesses, delivering a significant down payment towards funding the nationwide interoperable public safety network,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement.